Franklin-Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gillespie, James Adrian August 17, 1944
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Carnesville Herald  Aug. 31, 1944
On Sunday afternoon, August 27, 1944, hundreds of friends and relatives 
gathered at Carnesville Methodist Church for memorial services for JAMES ADRIAN 
GILLESPIE, who gave his life for his county on August 17, while serving with 
the Seabees on the island of Guam.
	James was the son of the late Asa Milton Gillespie and Mrs. Pammie 
Coker Gillespie, who survives him.
	He was 28 years old.
	After graduating from high school at Carnesville in 1933, he attended 
Abraham Baldwin College at Tifton and later the University of Georgia in 
Athens.  Throughout his school life he was outstanding in athletics being a 
star basketball player.  While at the University, he was rated as one of their 
best players.
	Since 1937 he was connected with the Agricultural Adjustment 
Administration beginning as a County surveyor and advancing to State 
Performance Chief, with offices in Athens.
	He was married in April 1944, to Miss Hazel Walton of Newnan.
	He enlisted in the Seabees on October 21, 1943 as a Carpenter Mate 
Second Class.  He took boot training and advanced training at Camp Peary, VA 
and since that time has served in the Pacific.
	James was a young man who possessed many admirable traits of 
character.  Modest and kind, he was always considerate of his family and 
friends.  He was an ardent worker in any cause which he undertook and was loyal 
to that which he knew to be right.
	In his work, which carried him throughout the state, he endeared 
himself to a host of friends and will long be remembered by them.
	Rev. D. L. Hagood of Buford, assisted by Rev. Harvey A. King, conducted 
the impressive memorial rites.
	The choir composed by Mesdames R. L. Howe, P. B. Little, H. G. Wansley, 
Miss Martha Little, Messrs. J. W. South, Clyde Sullivan, and R. F. Jones 
and, “Sweet Peace, the Gift of God’s Love”, and “Lead Me Gently Home, Father”.  
Miss Martha Little sang “Sunrise Tomorrow” as a solo.  The American Legion of 
Franklin County attended as a body.
	Surviving are his wife and son, James Adrian Gillespie, Jr., of Newnan, 
GA; his mother, Mrs. Pammie Gillespie; 4 brothers, Leland M. Gillespie of 
Carnesville, SSgt. Aubrey W. Gillespie in England, Sgt. William H. Gillespie, 
somewhere overseas, Edwin P. Gillespie of Dublin; 2 sisters, Mrs. Joe Stamps of 
Gadsden, AL and Lt. Anne Gillespie Barfield of Martinsburg, WVA.



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